“Commercial hauler” means a person other than a private hauler, or Provo City when engaged in residential collection, who collects, transports or disposes of solid, recyclable and/or yard waste generated in Provo City.

“Construction or demolition materials” means solid waste from construction or demolition activities, including wood, brick, stone, rubble, concrete, drywall and other building materials, but does not include small amounts of such materials that are susceptible to collection by the regular methods.

“Curbside service” means refuse, household recycling and yard waste collection service of containers with a maximum capacity of one hundred ten (110) gallons.

“Director” means the Director of the Provo City Department of Public Works, or the Director’s designee.

“Dispose” or “disposal” means to abandon, deposit, inter, or otherwise discard material as a final action after its use has been achieved or a use is no longer intended, including the deposition of material at a solid waste management facility.

“Dwelling” shall have the same meaning as in Section 14.06.020, Provo City Code.

“Hazardous waste” means excluded solid waste and is defined as any radioactive, volatile, corrosive, highly flammable, explosive, biomedical, infectious, bio-hazardous, toxic or listed or characteristic hazardous waste as defined by federal, state or local law or any otherwise regulated waste. Hazardous waste shall include, but not be limited to, any amount of waste listed or characterized as hazardous by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or any state agency pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, and including future amendments thereto, and any other applicable law.

“Owner” means one (1) or more persons owning an interest in a structure, and includes tenants and other occupants.

“Private hauler” means a person who collects, transports and/or disposes of solid waste generated at a structure as to which said person is an owner and who neither gives (except to employees for services actually performed) nor receives any form of consideration for so doing.

“Recyclable waste” means an item that otherwise would be abandoned or discarded, but that can be utilized in the secondary material market. Such items include newspaper and inserts; corrugated cardboard; telephone books; paperboard (cereal boxes, paper towel and toilet paper tubes, shoeboxes); magazines; home office paper; bulk rate mail; aluminum, steel and tin cans; plastic coated milk and juice cartons; plastic grocery bags; and plastic containers with the number 1 through 7 recycling symbol on the container.

“Refuse waste” means wastes commonly discarded by households, institutions, and commercial institutions, and commercial entities and includes, but is not limited to, garbage; paper contaminated with food waste; non-recyclable papers; plastics; metals; or glass items; diapers; textiles; rubber; and leather. Only objects small enough to fit in an automated refuse waste container are considered refuse. Refuse waste does not include: recyclable items, green waste, agricultural waste, asbestos waste, bulky waste, construction and demolition waste, hazardous waste, household hazardous waste, industrial waste, infectious waste, liquid waste, sewage sludge, special wastes, yard waste or waste tires.

“Residential collection” means the collection, transportation or disposal of solid waste or recyclable materials generated by the occupants of a dwelling which is used for human habitation.

“Solid waste” means all putrescible and nonputrescible materials or substances discarded or rejected as being spent, useless, worthless, or in excess to the owner’s needs at the time of discard or rejection, including but not limited to refuse waste, industrial and commercial waste, sludges from air or water control facilities, rubbish, ashes, contained gaseous material, incinerator residue, demolition and construction debris, discarded automobiles and offal, but not including sewage and other highly diluted water carried materials or substances and those in gaseous form.

“Solid waste management facility” means any facility employed for solid waste management, including but not limited to transfer stations, transport systems, baling facilities, landfills, processing systems, including material recovery facilities, resource recovery facilities or other facilities for reducing solid waste volume, plants and facilities for compacting, composting or pyrolization of solid wastes, incinerators and other solid waste disposal, reduction or conversion facilities, and facilities for resource recovery of energy consisting of:

“Structure” means any building or part thereof in Provo City whether or not used for human habitation and includes the parcel of real property upon which it is located and includes any business or activity occurring in the building or on the parcel of real property.

“Transfer station” means an intermediate solid waste management facility, the principal purpose of which is the transferring of loads of solid waste, with or without reduction of volume, from one (1) transportation unit to another for ultimate disposal at a solid waste or recyclable materials management facility; the term includes an intermediate facility as described above at which materials of a like or similar kind are also isolated, segregated or otherwise gathered as an incident to the above activities for salvage and reutilization by recycling or energy recovery through one (1) or more commercial or municipal facilities; the term shall not include junkyards or salvage yards.

“Yard waste” means vegetative matter resulting from landscaping, land maintenance, or land clearing operations including grass clippings, prunings, and other discarded material generated from yards, gardens, parks, or similar types of facilities. Yard waste does not include garbage, paper, plastics, processed wood, sludge, sewage, animal wastes, manure, or agricultural waste.